Global Finance names Alfa Bank Best Bank in Russia for 2004 by two Categories
04 Feb 2004

The magazine has named the "Best Trade Finance Banks and Providers" by category in an exclusive survey to be published in the February 2004 issue. Alfa Bank has been voted Best Trade Finance Bank in Russia by Global Finance for four consecutive years. "The World's Best Foreign Exchange Banks and providers for 2004" feature will appear in March issue. Global Finance editors - with input from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology experts - selected the best companies globally and in different countries. According to the Global Finance editors, criteria for choosing Alfa Bank in Russia included transaction volume, market share, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies. Alfa Bank trade-services network includes Moscow office and Amsterdam Trade Bank, which now provides standard and tailor-made products for Russia-related trade and project finance, investments and international settlements. Max Topper, Head of International Banking at Alfa Bank says, that 2003 was a very good year for international trade with Russia. "Companies large and small actively imported foreign consumer and capital goods facilitated by strong domestic demand. We were pleased that as a leading private Russian financial institution we were able to assist out customers to finance their short and medium term trade operations and as such helped them retool manufacturing facilities and become more competitive", Topper said. Alfa Bank's Foreign Exchange and Money Market department is headed by Igor Vasiliev. "We are honoring the banks that excel in an intensely competitive field that is extremely important to our readers,"says Joseph D. Giarraputo, publisher and president of Global Finance. Global Finance has 50,000 subscribers and more than 285,000 readers in over 170 countries. This audience includes chairmen, presidents, CEOs, CFOs, treasurers, and other financial officers responsible for making investments and strategic business decisions for large global companies and financial institutions. Global Finance targets most of the 8,000 key portfolio investors who control over 80% of all assets under professional management.

Alfa-Bank Russia

Alfa-Banking Group includes Alfa-Bank Russia which is today one of the largest privately owned banks in Russia. It also includes Alfa-Bank Ukraine, one of the top-ten largest banks in Ukraine.  Alfa-Banking Group also comprises  banks in the Netherlands, in Belarus and in Kazakhstan as well as presence in Cyprus, the United States and the United Kingdom. The Group offers a wide range of products and operates in all sectors of the financial market, including corporate and retail lending, deposits, payment and account services, foreign exchange operations, cash handling services, custody services, investment banking, trade finance and other ancillary services to corporate and retail customers.
 
Alfa-Bank Russia, founded in 1990, has developed rapidly to become one of Russia's largest privately owned banks. It provides a full range of banking services — corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking, asset management and trade finance. In 2010, Alfa-Bank Russia had 364 branches over nine time zones in Russia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, also had presence in the United States and Cyprus.

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